His team was involved in the rescue of the third victim at 5pm. They pulled the boy out of the rubble and rushed him to hospital. Nadurah Shamsul Liani, 20, also from the same team, said the soil was still wet and shifting at the site.

“It was very dangerous work for all the rescue workers. “There was always the danger of another landslide occurring but we pushed on for the sake of the trapped children,” she said, adding that rescue efforts almost halted between 6pm and 7pm because of the downpour. — THE STAR/ANN